![]() ![]() "Drowning Witch" may be one of his hardest pieces to perform. Side two presents three live tracks, two of which are difficult rock instrumentals. Released as a single, it became a novelty hit, climbing into the Top 40 in the U.S., a rare (and not necessarily sought-after) experience for Zappa. By 1981, Zappa had become a master at manipulating vocal tracks, a technique featured in each of them, but most successfully in "Valley Girl," where daughter Moon Unit (aged 14 at the time) pastiches rich girls from the San Fernando Valley. Side one features three studio songs that would never be performed on stage. The recipe would be extended to The Man From Utopia (1983) and Them or Us (1984). From this point on, his rock records would focus on single, simple rock songs (the previous year's You Are What You Is had them organized in interconnecting suites) with occasionally more complex instrumental numbers. Released in May 1982, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch marks Frank Zappa's entrance into the 1980s. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. ![]()
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